fin
wooooooo
no more dodgy undergrad lectures forever! (well, provided everything goes well with the exam marking and they don’t lose my paper…) (and well, except the coursework that we have to do for honours…) so what am i celebrating for anyway.. there’s still alot more uni to go.. but at least the honours and probably phd coming up is more research focussed with emphasis on doing what i want to do instead of getting useless information rammed down my throat..
so anyway it’s the holidays now.. good luck to all those poor UNSW folk who are mostly yet to start their exams! remember to write your chinese name and student ID on the cover of your exam paper, and sit according to your chinese zodiac and position your drink bottle and eraser at the optimal north-facing feng shui position.. also remember that from the mid 1990’s, UNSW has listed your seat numbers according to your chinese name.. if you do not have a chinese name, you can always talk to the person next to you - chances are they are asian, and chances are they will only speak cantonese, in which case you can just write down the first three words they say and use these as your new chinese name..
i guess nothing overly exciting has happened over the last few weeks.. stuvac is, well, stuvac.. nothing but sitting at home eating and studying and sleeping and watching a fair amount of tv.. the way i like to study is to type up notes, and once all the notes are typed up for a particular exam, to stand in front of a whiteboard and write down stuff, take a break, wipe out some stuff, take a break, fill in the wiped out stuff, take a break, and repeat.. it works well, especially the breaks.. i think they help me remember.. really! oh and drinking plenty of fluids (OJ, coke, water) helps, plus lots of sleep - it helps your brain remember stuff..
so i guess nothing much is going to happen until everyone else finishes.. which will be in a few weeks time thanks to University of Hong Kong, Australia Campus (aka UNSW) running their semester using the lunar calendar.. just plenty of bludge at home i think.. and trying to lose all this fat i put on during stuvac.. which probably means walking the crazy labrador again every day, although it’s getting hot so every time we come back from walks she looks and sounds like she’s going to have a heart attack even though she only just turned 1..
so good luck all who still have exams, especially for those who are in their final semester of uni!